Forget the Queen's respected surgeon, or the member of the
Royal Family. Finally the true identity of the infamous
Jack The Ripper has been exposed (120 years after he sliced up 5 prostitutes in the East End of London)
Jack was a Londoner known as
Walter Thomas Porriott who was well known to police as
Andrew John Gibson. He lived in London at the time of the murders and then sailed for Sydney just as the murders stopped and The Ripper vanished from the news. Apparently he lived in Brisbane and died in 1952 after a long career as an impostor and fraudster.
It really stands to reason. Not only were convicts sent to the colonies for a range of petty crimes but upper class families often sent their wayward sons to the other side of the world to escape scandal. And where better? At the turn of the last century Australia was a favoured place to escape to and create a new identity. It still is.
As the Ripper was never caught, it could be said that being confined to living out one's life in Brisbane was a suitable punishment.
Read the full story
here at the
Telegraph.co.uk
STOP PRESS : Now former solicitor
John Morris claims Welsh-born
Lizzie Williams (left) was the Ripper and says she killed her victims because she
could not have children, ripping out the wombs of three in an "unhinged
state".
Read more here.
Tommorrow : Is Rupert Murdoch related to the The Ripper?
